If you’ve been online long at all, you will encounter all sorts of views and opinions. Being a conservative Christian woman from the midwest, my whole view was entirely based on what was around me, how I was raised and my own convictions based on my world.
Then in 1996, the interest came to town. I soaked in a ton of information – learned some great things (and not so great things) and was shocked by much of what I learned.
I can honestly say that I did expand my views on some things, and absolutely did not on others. I started this web site in 1999 and moved it to WordPress in 2003 and officially began “blogging” (vs. updating html pages every day before that 
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It never ceases to amaze me the folks who contact me via my contact form, or comment on posts here on this site berating me, calling me all sorts of names (yes, using profanity!): all because they did not agree with my views. [Read more...]
Cancer: Didn’t See That Coming!
This week my husband was diagnosed with malignant melanoma (skin cancer). He’s had this spot on his neck for as long as we’ve been married, but in recent years – it started to change.
I told him to have it looked at; he didn’t. It had all the classic melanoma indicators. Recently, it started to bleed. I put my foot down and insisted he was going to the doctor. So glad I did! Our family doctor took one look and agreed it looks like a melanoma and insisted he remove it right then and there. Which he did.
Less than a week later, our doctor’s office calls and wants us to come in that day, they had his pathology results. I knew it wasn’t good news. [Read more...]